How Disgust Explains Everything (Published 2021)

For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.

From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words | Susie Dent

We have been bombarded with negativity recently; but the English language is a treasure trove of joyous vocabulary, says Susie Dent, a lexicographer and etymologist

Qassem Suleimani and How Nations Decide to Kill

The political, moral, and visceral considerations behind assassination.

Why are some people compelled to cheat at games? - BBC Future

When it comes to unfair tactics, some of us are just better at bending the rules. But, the urge to cheat at games is easier to understand when you examine how they are designed.

A Comprehensive Guide of Regularization Techniques in Deep Learning | by Eu

Understanding how Regularization can be useful to improve the performance of your model

The Looming Threat of a Nuclear Crisis with Iran

The Biden Administration faces a potential confrontation with a longtime rival that is better armed and more hard-line than at any time in its modern history.

We ranked 3 types of EV batteries to find the most efficient and sustainabl

Are lithium-ion batteries here to stay? Let's compare them with sodium-ion and solid-state batteries.

The Incredible Fig

The fig is an ecological marvel. Although you may never want to eat one again.

✚ How to Make Frequency Trails in Excel

Also known as ridgelines, use the method to create a compact visualization where you can easily identify major patterns and outliers.

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How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX

I love the look of LaTeX but hate the experience of writing in LaTeX, at least compared to Markdown. Luckily, Pandoc can convert Markdown files to PDFs using a LaTeX engine as the renderer, and includes a custom Markdown specification that can fill almost all my LaTeX needs…

My Top 10 Free Learning Resources for AWS

The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent

“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”

Why Arabs Lose Wars :: Middle East Quarterly

Arabic-speaking armies have been generally ineffective in the modern era. Egyptian regular forces did poorly against Yemeni irregulars in the 1960s.1 Syrians could only impose their will in Lebanon during the mid-1970s by the use of overwhelming

Be curious, not judgmental - shubhro.com

wader/fq: jq for binary formats

jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats - wader/fq

Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned | Hacker N

People Don’t Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves – Zander

What Apple, Samsung, and Starbucks learned from Pepsi Photo by John Fornander on Unsplash The year was 1957, and Pepsi — like many of the youth at that time — was dealing with an ide…

Can we actually "brain-drain" China? - by Noah Smith

No. But we can give America a big economic boost while boosting our moral image.

My productivity app is a single .txt file

The Trouble with Tribbles...: The cost of cloud

Putting your IT infrastructure into the cloud seems to be the "in" thing. It's been around for a while, of course. And, like most things rel...

Engineering Trade-Offs in Automatic Differentiation: from TensorFlow and Py

To understand the differences between automatic differentiation libraries, let’s talk about the engineering trade-offs that were made. I would personally say that none of these libraries are “better” than another, they simply all make engineering trade-offs based on the domains…

[1909.10140] A new coefficient of correlation

Is it possible to define a coefficient of correlation which is (a) as simple as the classical coefficients like Pearson's correlation or Spearman's correlation, and yet (b) consistently estimates...

The Importance of Price Signals

Originally published: December 2021 When price inflation occurs, it can be a very challenging time for everyone. In that type of environment, prices of goods and services often go up faster than wages, and the public and policymakers wish to constrain them. Historically, when…

Using Rel="preconnect" To Establish Network Connections Early And Increase Performance | CSS-Tricks

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RegExr: Learn, Build, & Test RegEx

RegExr is an online tool to learn, build, & test Regular Expressions (RegEx / RegExp).

Useful tricks you might not know about Git stash

I have launched a newsletter Git Better to help learn new tricks and advanced topics of Gi...

Meteor Blog

Product releases, community news, and project updates about Meteor.js.

A Practical Guide to SVGs on the web

Crawling - The Most Underrated Hack by @ttunguz

It’s been a little while since I traded code with anyone. But a few weeks ago, one of our entrepreneurs-in-residence, Javier, who joined Redpoint from VMWare, told me about a Ruby gem called Mechanize that makes it really easy to crawl websites, particularly those with…

Chrome DevTools | Chrome for Developers

Debug and optimize your web applications with Chrome DevTools.

Modern CSS Explained For Dinosaurs

CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a web developer. It’s certainly easy…

How (and why) to use D3 with React | HackerNoon

If you’re planning to build a React app with more than a few simple data visualizations, you’ll probably want to pick an approach that:

JavaScript Glossary | Codecademy

Programming reference for JavaScript.

Tips for a disciplined git workflow

Deploying Jekyll to Heroku

So you have a static site in Jekyll that you want to deploy toHeroku. Lucky for you, this is a relatively easy task and does notrequire anything as complex a...

A Journey with GraphQL

Why GraphQL is great for new(ish) developers.

Build A Real World Beautiful Web APP with Angular 8— The Ultimate Guide (2019) — PART II

🕑 The Wait Is Over ❕

CSS Reference

CSS Reference is a free visual guide to CSS. It features the most popular properties, and explains them with illustrated and animated examples.

Responsive images - Learn web development | MDN

That's a wrap for responsive images — we hope you enjoyed playing with these new techniques. As a recap, there are two distinct problems we've been discussing here:

Invaluable command line tools for web developers

junegunn/fzf: :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder.

Where the Tupelo Grows — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Beekeeping helped Gary Adkison pull his life together. Now he's among the tenacious harvesters of tupelo honey.

The Triumph and Terror of Wang Huning

Betting the ranch (Betting The Ranch) — High Country News – Know the West

Cody Easterday wagered hundreds of millions of dollars on the price of beef. He lost.

How to Use the SQL GROUP BY Clause and Aggregate Functions

Bringing it back to the basics

I Write About Food Every Single Day, And These Are The Most Clever Food Tips I've Learned Recently

Instantly upgrade boxed cake mix, make better pasta with one simple ingredient, and so much more.

Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs

My son Max loved the Star Wars movies. I would take him to various showings of them. And for his tenth birthday, he had a Star Wars–themed birthday party. And boy, did those kids love it! So I thou…

The Lost Lingo of New York City’s Soda Jerks

Anyone for a "glob"?